Word: danubian
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...Association of Nations with regional departments such as the Pan-American Union, the British Commonwealth of Nations, a European Federation, a Pacific Conference, the U. S. S. R. What distinguishes Mr. Buell's intricate program is a realistic sense of quid pro quo: e.g., a Danubian Union would need guarantees from Britain; to give them Britain would need a guarantee from the U. S. "to protect North and South American commerce with any European state resisting an aggressor...
...carried a Hitler eleven-point peace proposal. The points: 1) general disarmament; 2) formation of a small, independent Poland; 3) Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians to be allied to the Reich; 4) Austria forever in the Reich; 5) return of German colonies within 25 years; 6) formation of a Danubian Federation bossed by Germany and Italy; 7) guarantee of the Balkan status quo; 8) Germany's remaining Jews to migrate; 9) no trade barriers; 10) free passage of the Suez beginning in 1945; 11) Tunisia...
...industrious ants are?" Industrious but not quite as systematic as an ant, Otto has worked out a plan of restoration. The present war, he says, will end with revolution in Austria, which will spread to Bohemia-Moravia, Slovakia, Poland, the rest of Greater Germany. Then he will form a Danubian Federation-a democratic super-monarchy patterned after Great Britain, embracing Austria, Hungary, Bohemia-Moravia, Poland, Rumania (blithely overlooking well-intrenched Carol II) and Yugoslavia (overlooking the Habsburg-hating Serbs, who touched off World War I by murdering Otto's granduncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand). Otto places great hopes for backing...
...rather hopes to meet Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He said all he wanted was some sober fun, but his sympathizers, consisting principally of a few threadbare exiles who hang out in a Manhattan restaurant with a zither for Habsburg atmosphere, thought he would: 1) drum up sentiment for his Danubian Federation; 2) go to Canada to form the nucleus of an Austrian Legion at whose head he would some day ride to Imperial glory...
There were rumors that a regional entente of the Danubian States would be formed. It was agreed that Italy's interest in keeping Balkan peace was praiseworthy. It would be nice, hinted the conferees, if Hungary and Bulgaria would drop their claims against Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia until a general peace could be negotiated. But all knew that the Balkans, in order to keep the peace that in this generation they have come to hold so dear, would have to go on performing acrobatic tricks of neutrality. No concrete results were expected, none resulted. But it was all very cordial...